Here's an idea, George: Why not concentrate on things like intelligent dialog, character development and actual, as in not phoned-in, directing more than glitzy, yet still fake-looking, special effects and maybe, just maybe, it wouldn't have to cost $50 million an episode.

What a concept!

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I can't see Lucas and Co. spending $50 Million Dollars on each episode of the live action series. Seriously, to me, that's like asking to be broke. Especially since they're planning on broadcasting 400 episodes.

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Here's an idea, George: Why not concentrate on things like intelligent dialog, character development and actual, as in not phoned-in, directing more than glitzy, yet still fake-looking, special effects and maybe, just maybe, it wouldn't have to cost $50 million an episode.

What a concept!

Yeah. They could do a 'Stargate' and have the story center around people. Having a Jedi walk through a forest near the studio's is considerably cheaper then rendering the forest in 3d....

Maybe a better option would be having some new material from another era, and not bleeding that TPM-ROTJ one for everything it has. Namely because it seems set in what happens(along with the fans seeing a majority of it), so why add anything new to it?

Though that might just be how Lucas works. Anything other than the movie period has to hope to slip through, and anything in the movie period? Its given a cliched story, characters we've seen before, and a dozen retcons making one think it just can't be decided on exactly how Anakin fell to the dark-side.

It isn't the TPM-ROTJ, its the Dark Times era which has very little material in it currently.

Doesn't that count as TPM through ROTJ

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According to reports, there are no jedi (or at least main characters) in the show. It would focus on a group of more fringe-like characters.

We'll see how long that one lasts

You know, I kind of wish that movies in general used a bit more puppets and actual physical effects instead of just CGIing everything. Unless he's making an army of puppets or something, I don't see how 50 million would go into each episode: CGI is supposed to be the cheaper way, isn't it?

Less Jedi, no grand war and more focused on character development... how can this possibly cost that much per episode? When people with little to no budget can be creative for videos for YouTube, surely Lucas can do better with a few millions an episode.

From some very old information about this live-action TV series, I thought there wasn't going to be any Jedi since it's set between 3 and 4 and they've been wiped out or are in hiding. It was going to be focused on the beginnings of the rebellion against the empire and all that.

Well, from what I remember it was said that Darth Vader and the emperor and all that would only be mentioned infrequently and that the whole plot try to avoid the whole Jedi/Sith theme entirely since that's the main focus of the movies aside from the whole father/son deal.

Yes, I think I remember Lucas mentioning that at the most, major characters like Obi-Wan Kenobi would get a cameo appearance. With the exception of Boba Fett. Though I'm not sure it's been said that they were going to avoid the Jedi completely, a season with a Jedi in hiding as the overarching plot, for example, could work. But the focus would indeed be on civilians, soldiers and the scum of the galaxy.

Prime, you seem to be trying so hard for people to see the light of what it is suppose to be.

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As someone who works in the business, knows the difference between a high and low-production value show, and also the difference in degrees between an indie film and a big-budget monster. I have worked on TV and in movies.

Lucas needs to lay off that He is making that number up to impress and horrify us... it is indeed grand hyperbole, IMO, as Ctrl Alt Del surmised.

As someone who works in the business, knows the difference between a high and low-production value show, and also the difference in degrees between an indie film and a big-budget monster. I have worked on TV and in movies.

Lucas needs to lay off that He is making that number up to impress and horrify us... it is indeed grand hyperbole, IMO, as Ctrl Alt Del surmised.

Nice to see some expert opinion here

How much do you recon an episode would cost? With decent special effects?

How much do you recon an episode would cost? With decent special effects?

The shows I have worked on have not been huge budget productions, although The Walking Dead will have lots of FX. Regardless, nothing is cheap to produce... there are hundreds and hundreds of people working on the production most of the time, and they are not making peanuts, although PA's with family's are barely making a living out here. That's why that job is mostly done by young-uns

I think Tommycats figures for Firefly and Gallactica are good numbers. How would tripling the budget of Gallactica be practical? Casting is expensive... but I don't think Anthony Hopkins or Morgan Freeman, Russell Crowe or Tom Cruise are going to be lining up for these parts. Neither would Katherine Heigel or Ashley Judd or Uma Thurman... so paying them could push your budget there, but I am not sure how it serves the story. Better to pay less for lesser known actors that we can be immersed in their character playing without the distraction of knowing them already as so-and-so in such-and-such.

For special effects, G Lucas and Co can make effects cheaper and better than anyone else in their own opinion, which makes the number all the more ridiculous.

$25 million per episode would be a wet dream to any Production Group and UPM. I would think that everyone would get ridiculous rates, that Craft Services would have caviar and jumbo lump crab with Dom Perignon to wash it down, and nothing would ever get done.